Igniting Ideas at EDUCAUSE 2025!

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | 3:30PM–4:15PM CT | Meeting Room 205, Level 2
Session Type: Featured Session
Delivery Format: Ignite Session

Join us for this new fast and fabulous session format: Ignite Talks! Speakers get just 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of 5 minutes. This presentation time slot will feature:

  • The Most Innovative Thing a University Can Do Is Work Together – Christine Looser, Minerva Project
  • Hindsight is 20/20: Lessons Learned from a Learning Management Systems Migration – Kate Bowersox, Washington University in St. Louis
  • AI as Your Co-Pilot, Not Your Autopilot: How IT Communicators Can Use AI Ethically and Effectively– Alex Chrystal, University of California, Riverside
  • Leveraging the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) for Campus Transformation – Adam Finkelstein, McGill University
  • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Human Advantage in Higher Ed – Ben Bongers, EDUCAUSE
  • Can You Teach an AI to Teach? - Jakob Aure Bergvik, Chief Commercial Officer, Keenious

Presenters

  • Jakob Bergvik Aure

    Chief Commercial Officer, Keenious
  • Ben Bongers

    Manager, Professional Learning, EDUCAUSE
  • Kate Bowersox

    Director, Center for Digital Education, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Alex Chrystal

    Manager of Communication & Training, University of California, Riverside
  • Megan Denhardt

    Founder & CEO, Denhardt Productions
  • Adam Finkelstein

    Associate Director, Learning Environments, McGill University
  • Christine Looser

    Associate Professor, Minerva Project

Resources & Downloads

  • EDUCAUSE IGNITE 2

    Updated on 7/5/2026